Lawyers urge society not to be silent and to join fight against law-enforcers' abuses

A lawyer complains he is hindered to do his job, having to focus on the law-suits against him. Aureliu Scortescu told a news conference on Wednesday that the law-enforcements bodies started 2 legal proceedings against him, in only 4 days, Info-Prim Neo reports. Scortescu is the barrister of archimandrite Vasile Caramalau, the abbey of the St. Andrew Monastery of the Basarabian Church, in the town of Durlesti, Chisinau municipality. Vasile Caramalau is a Romanian citizen and is searched for exceeding the stay term in Moldova. The lawyer says he is accused of threating to beat a policeman from the Migration and Asylum Bureau, and, in the second case, he is accused of hindering the legitimate activity of police. Scortescu says he could not have menaced 4 police, since he was alone. Moreover, he accuse police of blocking the door of the room they were in and pushed him to sit on a chair. The lawyer says he has notified the Presidency, the Government, the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Domestic Affairs and calls on all the Moldovan barristers “to stick together in fighting the police's abuses”. He says this is not the only case and reminded of the lawyers Roman Zadoinov, Anna Ursache, Alexandru Volghin. Aureliu Scortescu is also supported by the deputy chair of the Moldovan Bar, Petru Munteanu, the lawyers Gheorghe Malic and Vitalie Nagacevschi, the president of the association “The lawyers for Human Rights”. At the same news conference, they have said Scortescu acted according to the law, as “the abuses on behalf of the polcie should be curbed.” The lawyers call on society not to be silent and say “the government perceives the lawyers' activity as hindering the fight against crime, and this is an absolutely wrong approach.”